Well, bad stuff: no new SS/LB/SSvsLBGood stuff: -SNK wont release new TaitoX2 games anymore, which means their "PC versions" will surface sooner, Sen included-They will concentrate on porting and releasing more "Anthologies" so maybe SS64/SSAZ will be included in some of them-Capcom can buy SNK game licenses and start releasing new titles (or at least new CvS titles)

So far the nearest future of SS should be-further development on MUGEN (I hope they will include netplay feature soon)-SS6/NGBC netplay on Demul-Sen for PC surfacting on the net

I can't believe SNK GAYmore would let KOF die over making profit over Pachinko.

Don't worry, we'll get to play KoF XIII in 5 years when it's released as part of Neo Geo Collection Part.23

Yeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!

Pachinko, guys! PACHINKO!

Happy days are here again!

Aruze part 2!

Just thinking about some douchebag sitting in a meeting of SNK talking about wanting to drop KOF for pachinko makes me want to flip shit. I mean what the fuck.

You forgot that snk doesn't like to make money. they literally fuck up almost everything they do nowadays.

Yup is the end of the world and we know it.

They (Capcom) already have Shinkiro, they made CvS, and they know KOF is still damn popular. I can easily see a Capcom offer to buy the franchise and derivatives (FF, AoF, etc), its just too damn good to let it waste on pachinko and stuff like that.

fuck crapcom and their gay ass turtle fighters and characters. they can eat a fat dick. id rather have kof die after 13 than see it get released by some bs cmopany like crapcom, fuck turning kof turtle like sf4, eat a dick to the rest of you actually hoping for crapcom shits.

Pachinko? Porting old titles? Doesn't the new president realize that KOF XIII would make a whole lot of money if it's released for consoles? Doesn't he realize that there are a whole lot of people worldwide who would love to get their hands on KOF XIII? Oh, well--you can't force people to make sound decisions.

Hahaha! A game, making more money than pachinko?

HAHAHAHA!!!!

SNK has lived off pachinko for over a decade, even with KOFMI1 and the GBA MS being fairly profitable. Stop kidding yourself, the only reason the game division exists is to work as an IP farm. I've been saying this for almost five years on the KOF forum. Time for you guys to join me in the real world.

so far SNKP greatest accomplishment of the 21st century was able to instigate one of the biggest hentai waves on the net with single SSVI character (additional points for character being done in pixelated sprites deemed lowres at moment of release, but still hitting all the correct fetishes), then surfing on it with their dating sims galore (and pachinkos of course). Now that they produced enough hentai/loli fodder in their character library, they have no real need in producing fighting games anymore. And to avoid the previous Aruze outcome, this time they used mimicry to become Aruze themselves.

They don't have the resources or even staff to produce great games. Just enjoy the old stuff and polish your gameplay there. All the best stuff that could ever exist already exists. If nothing ever came from them again I'd be okay with what I've been given.

I've wanted a Last Blade 3 for ages..

Thing is.. SNK WAS NEO-GEO. They mastered that platform. They mastered it so well there games still had some function of modern appeal after having been made 14 years later on the same damn hardware.

SNK isn't a company that can just make stuff on random alien hardware, they don't have that staff and muscle companies like Capcom have in spades. They can't even get games out at a speed enough to keep their own economy going. It can only last so long.

I bet ark gets a few ip's and Capcom gets a few in the near future.

I don't like Capcom much anymore either for fighters. As far as I'm concerned, everyone's best days is behind everyone.. If its been years and years and that hasn't changed, there's no reason to invest blind hope.

KOF XIII will probably be ported, and pray it is done by some outside company, because SNKP can't get anything right for netcode.

They need to fix the juggling, that game has MVSC2 tier-itis and corner juggles from hell. Really rotten over sight for such a long term time investment. They even stopped patching the damn game.

They quit to easily and are under staffed to begin with.

BTW, KOF is done in my view. Its over. There is to damn many, and the last worthy title of classic appeal was KOF 2002.

98UM AND 2002UM were good money makers to, but they weren't even new games. I'm sick of KOF, and SNK can't make money off any fighting game other then KOF and SS.. Worse, the last released SS is a write off.

What is the incentive to play KOF XIII where like every character in the game has seemingly easier 100% combo's in the corner? I may as well just play KOF 2002, which is somehow less broken with all its infinite's and other max mode BS, because at least under tiered characters can really stand a chance. SNK's place in the gaming world is a virtual impossibility. None of their franchises have any lastability with all the new innovation, they aren't with the new generation on any level, so there is zero long term profit margin, and worse? They have the worst marketing strategy on the planet. Once asia stops caring about KOF, thats it.

It won't be long either because China aint the poor shithole it used to be, and they may get different series and other things.

Other nations poverty has been a SNK profit margin piggy back. Mexico, Pakistan, China, etc.There is a reason all the best KOF players in the world are from china. Set ups wouldn't destroy businesses, and really old kof's had long term appeal.. Then ironically, the bootleggers buried SNK, and that's it. You wanna blame anyone, just blame everyone, because we can't force people to care. Only thing people care about now is MVSC3. Capcom OWNS and controls the entire market of fighting games now and in the future. And ONO has a wealth of titles he'll water down in a shitty way to make money.

Fran wrote:i could easily write 8k but..just one thing :

you people don't seem to understand / realize somethingsomething not so trivialthose artists and sprite designers that made kof xi and xii and xii are the last of a kindeven our friend doctor neogeo has been with the company for what ? 10+ years ?and he was a fan of the neo before becoming part of the companyyou simply cannot replace something like that

"omg sell the ip's to capcom !1!!"it's such a stupid stupid statement for loads of reasonsjust a practical one :the last sprite based versus game from capcom was cfj in 2005and cfj was basically 98 % rehashsoooo,back in time to cvs 2 in 2001 (2002? too lazy to google it)10 years ago

capcom is still alive for a number of causesone of those is that they are making games like sf iv and not kof xiiigames that are 3d,stupid,easy to make,shallow as shit,perfect for 2011and please don't mention other companies or blazbluekof sprites are art , blazblue is just like an annoying flash video

in other words,only those people at snk could create kof xiiiif they are gone,there is no kof or gekka or whatever

personally,i have always been a fan of the mvs / neo geo more than an snk fanso i didn't really care for kof xi even though it was pretty goodi stopped playing kof with 2003

but i still play all those neo geo games like crazy,i am still loving themprobably now more than everi am still discovering new stuff,secrets,etcstuff that probably no one knows (outside japan)

you people say you are sad about thisbut this site never was about the games (the gameplay section is a total joke)so why do you say you care ?because you played shin samurai spirits in 1994 ?all you guys do nowadays is just posting in unrelatedmight as well leave this site if you have no interest in neo geo gamesand don't say you care about snk or kof if you never play the goddam games

and,btw,eikichi kawasaki hasn't been part of the company for a while nowbasically the neo and snk died when he leftwas he really a boxer anyway ?